Lassen View Elementary: This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.
Lassen View posts 48% meeting the standard against 43% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 40 | 20% | 48% | -16.9 | 13.9% | 4.3% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Lassen View Elementary scores 40 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 44th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🌱 Building Momentum — This label means the data doesn't clearly sort the school one way or the other — ask what the school is proud of, and what it's working on.
Most rating sites would stop at “48% proficient” and call it done. Lassen View deserves a closer read. The school sits in Redding, where two-thirds of students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 44th percentile since 2019.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 48% of students meet the standard today, above the 40% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 36% | 51% | 50% | 48% | 49% |
| Grade 4 | 43% | 43% | 38% | 53% | 49% |
| Grade 5 | 49% | 46% | 47% | 62% | 46% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 41% | 45% | 58% | 53% | 68% |
| Grade 4 | 43% | 37% | 39% | 44% | 40% |
| Grade 5 | 29% | 33% | 23% | 40% | 38% |
The story this school is actually telling
The school, grade by grade
ELA · CAASPP 2024–25Different students, same year — each bar is one grade's proficiency mix.
The honest read: the share exceeding holds steady across grades; the floor slips 3.3pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 6 things our score weighs
Ask how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
- Ask what typically leads to a suspension, and what happens before it gets there.
- Ask what changes between grade 3 and grade 5 here, and who teaches the older kids.
- Ask whether the tour can step into a working classroom — watch how the teacher handles a student who's stuck.
- Ask to tour while school's in session, and notice how hallways and transitions feel — culture shows up between classes, not just in them.
- Ask how the school communicates with families when a child starts to struggle.
- Ask what a typical day looks like for a new student in the first few weeks.
How every group of students does here
At Lassen View Elementary in Redding, 42.9% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 44.0% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Lassen View Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 1.1 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (43.6% Math proficient); White students (51.2% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 5.7 percentage points for low-income students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 140 students tested.
8 of 15 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Change in proficiency from the lowest tested grade — which groups gain ground the longer they stay. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Low-income student ELA proficiency falls by 14.0pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: -1.9pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (18.5% vs 9.8%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Feeder patterns derived from NCES attendance boundary data. Boundaries are approximate and may have changed — verify with your school district for current assignments.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$446 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.
The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →
The neighborhood it serves
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 34% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 55
Nearby Middle Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 40
Nearby High Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 52
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
A low score doesn't tell the whole story. Read: Your School Scored Low — Here's What That Actually Means
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 63 | 25% | 24% | 38% | 13% | 49% | +6 |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 17% | 32% | 21% | 30% | 49% | +4 |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 26% | 20% | 26% | 28% | 46% | −2 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 63 | 25% | 43% | 14% | 17% | 68% | +23 |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 9% | 30% | 36% | 25% | 40% | −2 |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 15% | 23% | 31% | 31% | 38% | +2 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 61 | 7% | 28% | 54% | 11% |
CAST is tested in grades 5, 8, and once in high school — not annually. Not part of the Scope Score.
| Subgroup · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 140 | 42.9% | −1 | +5 |
| White | 86 | 51.2% | +1 | −11 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lassen View Elementary ← | — | 40 | 19.7% | 48.3% | −16.9 | 4.3% |
| Stellar Charter | 1.5 mi | 66 | 33.9% | 68.9% | +5.5 | 1.1% |
| Sycamore Elementary | 2.4 mi | 50 | 27.9% | 54.6% | −19.4 | 4.3% |
| Redding Collegiate Academy | 0.9 mi | 48 | 20.8% | 46.3% | −0.8 | 0.6% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 40 | 45 | #3047 | 17.3% | 39.9% | 12.4% | 2.8% | +0.8pp |
| 2022 | 32 | 38 | #3541 | 19.6% | 42.5% | 51.5% | 3.9% | -8.7pp |
| 2023 | 32 | 32 | #3917 | 17.0% | 42.5% | 25.5% | 3.8% | -18.8pp |
| 2024 | 45 | 58 | #2386 | 20.5% | 49.9% | 21.0% | 2.9% | +0.5pp |
| 2025 | 40 | 44 | #3231 | 19.7% | 48.3% | 13.9% | 4.3% | -16.9pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 12.2% | 14.5% | +2.3pp |
| Male | 12.6% | 12.7% | +0.1pp |
| Asian | 11.3% | 11.5% | +0.2pp |
| Filipino | 19.4% | 17.0% | -2.4pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 13.8% | 15.6% | +1.8pp |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | 0.0% | — | — |
| Two or More Races | 18.0% | 15.6% | -2.4pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 10.5% | 22.8% | +12.3pp |
| English Learners | 12.5% | 0.0% | -12.5pp |
| Foster Youth | 17.6% | 11.1% | -6.5pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 14.0% | 17.1% | +3.1pp |
| All Students | 12.4% | 13.6% | +1.2pp |
| Homeless | — | 36.8% | — |
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